Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago August 2, 2001 The East Eighth Street Project featuring new sidewalks, a wider street and parking by the athletic fields, wrapped up last week. A definite improvement for the community. For the first time, the 2001 Days of Real Sport Court will be a special guest at the Emerald Downs Race Track in Federal Way on August 10. The four young women on the court - Queen Chelsey Murdock and princesses Corrine McKinley, Trista Flores and Amy Smith won't be "riding in," so the journey will be without their four-legged partners....
WAITSBURG - More than 100 family members and local friends of Dennis Nostrant showed up for a dinner and silent auction at the fairgrounds Saturday, hoping to give the father of two a "second chance" at life, as his sister Susan Skeeters put it. The event raised more than $6,000 for Nostrant's transplant fund. The engineer, once a bar owner in Dayton and a longtime former resident of Waitsburg, needs a liver transplant to survive his late 50s. About one year ago, he discovered he has cirrhosis a...
PLANNING COMMISSIONERS WANTED WAITSBURG - The City of Waitsburg Planning Commission has three vacancies it needs to fill, City Clerk Randy Ninchliffe said. The six-member commission, which helps the city decide on the dedication of streets and alleys, reviewsconditional use permits, variances and interprets zoning, meets the first Thursday of every month and when there is business to address. The commission also makes recommendations for changes in the comprehensive plan, building codes, subdivision codes, zoning codes, environment code, plat...
Dayton's Liberty Theater is bringi ng Buck, an award-winning documentary, to its screen this Friday. The film follows real-life " horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman on his life journey from an abusive childhood to his extraordinary approach to horses. Regular evening shows are at 7:30 on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday with 3:00 matinees on Saturday and Sunday. On Thursday, July 28, the theater will host a special Evening with Buck. Brannaman, who will be in town for a horse clinic at the Dayton Fairgrounds, will speak to the audience...
Projected ending stocks for 2011/12, at 670 million bushels, are down 191 million bushels from 2010/11 as supplies decrease more than use. Total wheat supplies for 2011/12 are projected down 217 million bushels because of both smaller carry- in stocks and production from 2010/11. Total projected uses are down 26 million bushels from 2010/11. Total production is projected at 2,106 million bushels, down 102 million bushels from 2010/11. Winter Wheat Production Estimates by Class Hard red winter (HRW) production is forecast to be 791 million...
DAYTON - Susan Hosticka always wanted to do a "bee beard" to prove the hard-working insects are really quite gentle and harmless despite their reputation to the contrary. Late last month, during a field day for the state's beekeepers association at Washington State University, she finally had her Fear Factor moment when 4,000 bees crawled and buzzed around her shoulders, neck and head. "Not a single sting," said the co-owner of Octopus Garden Honey on South Touchet Road near Dayton. "It kind of...
PRESCOTT - Last summer, a Canadian bicycle rider making her way across the country stopped in Waitsburg. Being from the wheat belt in the flat-as-a-pancake province of Saskatchewan, she remarked on the pitch of the wheat fields in the hills around the Touchet Valley. "Our farmers wouldn't know what to do with that," she said about the challenge of cultivating such steep terrain. Growing wheat in the rolling Palouse has never been easy. There's not enough rainfall for an annual crop on higher...
WAITSBURG - With prices on the high side, now is a good time to be a wheat or dry pea farmer in the Touchet Valley. And while unseasonably cool, wet weather is causing a few problems for wheat farmers, that isn't the case for those with fields planted with peas. Recent cool weather has slowed down the wheat maturation process, pushing back the start of harvest by 10 days to two weeks, McGregor agronomist Matt Weber said. "It has caused some of the wheat to dry slower and to fall down in some...
Ten Years Ago July 19, 2001 Honoring Ernest and Dorothy Kison's years of dedication to the community, Waitsburg's new gymnasium will be officially named Kison Court. A large crowd enjoyed a "One of a Kind" potluck picnic hosted by Andy, Denise, Jessie and Micah Winnett. With great food and great music, everyone had a great time! Twenty-Five Years Ago July 17. 1986 Darlene and Walt Norman of Prescott celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, enjoyed relatives visiting and a family reunion all in the month of June. Work is progressing...
STARBUCK- Homemade flower petal jellies and screen-printed Starbuck T-shirts resembling the coffee logo were just two of the unique items for sale in Starbuck's annual communitywide yard sale last Saturday. Motorcycles, old arcadestyle upright console video games, new boots, framed pictures, puzzles, household items, cookies and lemonade were also among the goodies for sale. The first yard sale greeting out-of-town visitors, located just off Highway 216, was at Zonia Dedloff's 40-year-old...
RESOURCE COUNCIL MOVES WAITSBURG - The Blue Mountain Resource Conservation & Development Council has moved from its office location in the Port of Columbia complex in Dayton to the Waitsburg Business Center, located at 111 Preston Avenue, Suite B., and our new phone number is 509-337-8968. According to Council board president Bruce G. Williams of Walla Walla, resource conservation and development councils across the county lost vital support when federal funding was abruptly cut-off on April 15th of this year when Congress passed the 2011...
DAYTON - When Yance Yost asked his friend and gallery owner Claire Johnston if she might be interested in placing one of his pieces in the jimgermanbar, which she runs with her husband, the answer was "no." Yost dropped his head in disappointment. He didn't think that his piece, a wired collage of empty picture frames accompanied by a poem about the images that "used to lie inside," "sucked that bad." Then he realized Johnson hadn't finished answering his question. "But you can have two months...
We are thankful beyond measure for all our good friends for their good deeds, thoughts, cards and many other kindnesses during our recent sadness. We offer our humble thanks for your comfort and love. The family of Rachel Hinchliffe Hara....
June 28 Domestic Violence. Domestic Violence reported on N 4th Street in Dayton. Noise Complaint. Noise complaint reported on E. Dayton Avenue. Animal Problem. Dog bite reported on W Cameron Street. June 29 Animal Problem. Animal Mistreatment reported on South 2nd Street in Dayton. Suspicion. Suspicious person reported on W 2st Street, Dayton. Traffic Hazard. Report of tree block in roadway in McKay Alto. Abandoned vehicle. Abandoned vehicle reported on Eckler Mountain, Dayton. Juvenile Problem. Report of a small boy hanging on the train...
Grandma Moses really knew a pastoral scene when she saw one, captivating America in the 1950s with her oil paintings depicting the American country way of life. Today, I thought I was seeing through Grandma Moses' eyes, barreling through the country side heading for Spokane, north on Highway 12. The one farm I really enjoy seeing each time I head north on this route, is the one on the left hand side of the road; tucked into its own minuscule valley, a lazy pond, weeping willows, Guernseys dotting the field with a red barn in the distance. When...
Ten Years Ago July 12, 2001 Five-year-old Kimmie Hamann joins a long line of grandchildren of Waitsburg's Jan Cronkhite who have performed in WWCC Foundation summer musicals. Waitsburg resident Janice Cook is the stage manager for "State Fair" which begins its three-week run tonight. Sixty years ago, American tree fanciers spent considerable energy finding the biggest trees of every species in the nation and compiled a list. In the National Register of Big Trees, Waitsburg is listed as home of the "largest common pear tree." Times intern Brad...
SUMMER BURN BAN DAYTON - Effective on Monday, July 11, outdoor burning will not be allowed in Columbia County Fire District 3 as part of a summer burn ban to prevent fires, the agency announced last week. SOLAR GARDENS OPENS WAITSBURG - Travis Richardson, chair of the Dayton Farmers' Market, and his finance Loretta Bradley are opening Solar Gardens & Sharpening this week to offer retail sales of local fruits and vegetables, and sharpening services. The business, located behind the three landmark solar panels along Highway 12 just outside...
WAI T SBURG - When they bought thei r Keystone Montana 5th wheel in September, Lynn and Paul Mantz-Powers knew it would be months before they'd retire. But they were so excited about the prospect of hitting the road and adopting a new nomadic lifestyle this summer that they practically moved out of their adjacent family home on Bolles Road and into their 400-squarefoot travel trailer. "Trailer" doesn't actually captures their new abode, which comes with a shower, bathroom, living room, dining...
1 ArtWalk-Examine fifteen of Walla Walla's Arts Businesses-including art galleries, art venues, artists' studios and museums from 5 to 8 p.m. Walla Walla's ArtWalk, exhibiting works of local, national and international artists. Art Walk is free and open to all art enthusiasts. Look for the signs in the windows of participating art venues. For more info go to: www.artwalkwallawalla.com Experience afternoon anof days gone by. Spin yarn or watch experts demonstrate the timeless skill of spinning at Whitman Park, 328 Whitman Mission Rd., Walla...
This weekend I catered and attended a friend's 60th birthday party. Filling the table with an array of appropriate wine tasting nibbles, everyone brought their own bottles of regional and local wines to share with one another. Somewhere in the first few sips of Balboa Winery's 09 Syrah, I pulled the wine guys arm and said, "Have you tasted this wine?" We were both floored being Syrah red wine lovers, and unsuspecting of this wineries vintage; superb in every way. Let me explain. Balboa winemaker/owner, Tom Glase is someone you can talk to....
Ten Years Ago July 5, 2001 When a series of dramatic storms passed through the area, thunderstorms clobbered the valley on June 27. The storms carried with them heavy rain, strong wind gusts and three-quarter to one-inch hail. The Joint Fire District No. 2 received a new fire truck, which has numerous custom features and will save taxpayers about $45,000 over comparable fire trucks. Local artist Cathy Abel took second place in Walla Walla's Carnegie Art Museum second annual Juried Art Show last week. Her watercolor California Beach was judged...
